After the United States Navy Commodore Matthew C. Perry's Black Ships forcibly opened Japan to foreign trade and the shogunate proved incapable of hindering the " barbarian " interlopers, the Emperor Kōmei began to assert himself politically.

The psychological shock of the Western " Black Ships " and the subsequent collapse of the shogunate convinced many that the nation needed to unify in order to resist being colonized by outside forces.

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McCabe and Jones have since started their own project, The Black Ships, who later changed their name to Black Submarine, along with electric violinist and arranger Davide Rossi and drummer Mig Schillace.

The inhabitants of Japan experienced a long period of relative isolation from the outside world during the Tokugawa shogunate, until the arrival of " The Black Ships " and the Meiji period.

However, despite these efforts, in 1853, United States naval Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in Tokyo Bay with his fleet of Black Ships and came ashore at Kurihama, in southern Yokosuka, leading to the opening of diplomatic and trade relations between Japan and the United States.

Perry sailed on his four " Black Ships " into Edo Bay on July 8, 1853, and began negotiations with the Tokugawa shogunate that led to a peace and trade treaty between the United States and Japan in 1854.

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The Kobusho was an exclusive military training school, primarily for the use of the shogunal retainers, set up by the Shogunate in 1855 in order to reform the military system after the arrival of Perry's Black Ships.

In July 8, 1853, when Commodore Matthew Perry's Black Ships arrived to force the opening of Japan, Manjirō became an interpreter and translator for the Shogunate and was instrumental in negotiating the Convention of Kanagawa.

The name Odaiba comes from a series of six island fortresses constructed in 1853 by Egawa Hidetatsu for the Tokugawa shogunate in order to protect Edo from attack by sea, the primary threat being Commodore Matthew Perry's Black Ships which had arrived in the same year.

Having risen to power soon after the Black Ships episode, he is held to have been responsible for the Unequal Treaties ( Convention of Kanagawa, Anglo-Japanese Friendship Treaty, Harris Treaty, Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Amity and Commerce ) which broke the sakoku and opened the Japanese frontliners to foreign influences.

However, in the film we momentarily see a single blossom of " hope " on the previously dead tree during the Siege of Gondor and the imminent arrival of Aragorn on the Black Ships.

Japanese 1854 print describing Matthew Calbraith Perry | Commodore Matthew Perry's " Black Ships ".

The Black Ships ( in Japanese, 黒船, kurofune, Edo Period term ) was the name given to Western vessels arriving in Japan in the 16th and 19th centuries.

The appearance of the Black Ships of Perry in the Tokyo Bay would be the start of a new era in the history of Japan.

Whereas the demi-gods of the various worlds such as Ruby-Eye Shabranigdo and Dark Star Dugradigdo had physical presence in that world, they appear in the Black World as " Lost Ships ", intelligent space ships of unknown origin that have powerful or somewhat divine powers with more advanced technology than any other device in the universe.

* Opening of Japan by Commodore Matthew C. Perry and his Black Ships ( 1853 – 54 )

David Tibet of the apocalyptic folk band Current 93 released a collection of her recordings, entitled Fountain of Snow, and she sings on the final version of " Idumæa " on Current 93's 2006 album Black Ships Ate the Sky.

Although the notion seems appealing, the arrival of the Black Ships and Commodore Matthew C. Perry is not specifically recognized as a factor in the change of era names.

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Dix wrote " From Slave Ships to the Superdome in New Orleans ", contending that " In a hundred thousand ways Katrina laid bare the unequal and oppressive relations Black people are forced to endure under this system … As long as power is left in the hands of these capitalist exploiters, we ’ ll continue to see the kind of suffering seen in New Orleans and the Mississippi Delta area in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

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Another spot with an image-provoking name is the Black Hills where you can visit the old frontier mining town of Deadwood.

The Black Sands, as the contrasting name would suggest, have a rockier and darker sand, and are also popular with visitors exploring the rock caves and fascinating sea life.

The name Schwarzwald ( German for " Black Forest ") derives from the Romans who referred to the thickly forested mountains there as Silva Nigra ( Latin for " Black Forest ") because the dense growth of conifers in the forest blocked out most of the light inside the forest.

Black Forest ham originated from this region, and so, by name and reputation at least, did the Black Forest Cake.

Current names of the Sea are equivalents of the English name, " Black Sea ", including:

It is also possible that the name Axeinos arose by popular etymology from a Scythian Iranic axšaina-' unlit ,' ' dark '; the designation " Black Sea " may thus date from Antiquity.

English-language writers of the 18th century often used the name " Euxine Sea " ( or ) to describe the Black Sea.

The country owes its former name of Upper Volta to three rivers which cross it: the Black Volta ( or Mouhoun ), the White Volta ( Nakambé ) and the Red Volta ( Nazinon ).

Venom's album, titled Black Metal ( album ) | Black Metal, inspired the name of the genre

Black Sabbath's Geezer Butler ( also of Irish descent ) wrote the lyrics to the Black Sabbath song " Sabbath Bloody Sabbath " on the album of the same name in 1973.

Charles was the resident poet on Channel 4's Black on Black ( 1985 ), and its entertainment-based successor, Club Mix ( 1986 ), and appeared, weekly, as a John Cooper Clarke-style ' punk poet ' on the BBC2 pop music programme Oxford Road Show under the name of " Susan Williams ".

Among Black players, the name " craps " refers primarily to the casino version of the game that is played on a marked felt surface on a table.

Three of them ( later to be known as Liberty, Black Tom and Ellis ) were given the name Oyster Islands by the settlers of New Netherland, the first European colony in the Mid-Atlantic states.

By 1983 Bevan was expressing a desire to join Black Sabbath permanently and Lynne and Tandy were recording tracks for the Electric Dreams soundtrack under Jeff Lynne's name.

The first Greek references to the Goths call them Scythians, since this area along the Black Sea historically had been occupied by an unrelated people of that name.

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* Under the cover name of ' Mowgli ' Philby appears in Duncan Kyle's WWII thriller " Black Camelot " published in 1978.

Originally the word was a colloquial name for a group of the harmless buriers of the dead during the Black Death, in the 14th century, known as Alexians, Alexian Brothers or Cellites.

In 2007, US Congressman Alce Hastings introduced a bill to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the first use of the name " America " with the support of the Congressional Black Caucus, the Organizing Committee and mayors in fifty states to champion the national strategy " Bring Home The Spirit of History in your town ".

The Munich massacre is a common reference name for an attack that occurred during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Bavaria, in southern West Germany, when 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage and eventually killed, along with a German police officer, by the Palestinian group Black September.